Reeducation in Postwar Vietnam
Subtitle: Personal Postscripts to Peace (Texas a & M University Military History Series)
Contributors: Edward P. Metzner (Editor)
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
Published: October 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 135
ISBN-13: 9781585441297
Subjects: Asian history: Vietnam War; Political control & influence; Warfare & Defence; c 1970 to c 1980; Indo-China - History; History; History - General History; History: World; Asia - Southeast Asia; Military - Vietnam War; Peace; Asia - General; 1975-; Huynh, Van Chinh; Political prisoners; Politics and government; Prisons; Tran, Van Phuc; Vietnam
Description: "When helicopters plucked the last Americans off the roof of the U.S. Embassy in Saigon in 1975, countless Vietnamese who had worked with or for the Americans remained behind. Many of these were soon arrested and sent to "reeducation" camps where they faced forced labor, indoctrination sessions, and privation. Others suffered through harrowing flights from their homes seeking safe haven across treacherous seas.

The stories of three of these Vietnamese who survived and eventually found their way to America are told here in stark and moving detail."--BOOK JACKET.